Calibrating your computer monitor is as important if not more than your choice of camera, well maybe that's an exaggeration but monitor calibration is important to your filmmaking workflow. Monitors drift out of color alignment and also gamma, making what you see on your screen maybe not what the rest of the world will see. Gamma is the shadow and highlight areas of your video clips, so we need to see that we have detail in the shadows without blowing highlights. This is important if you are giving your clips a slight curves adjustment to make the clip pop.
Colors drift out on a neglected monitor at an alarming rate, pros will calibrate maybe every couple of hours, certainly daily. Leave some time for the monitor to be on and warm up properly, I like to have my monitor on for a couple of hours before I calibrate. The older your monitor is, the worse the color rendering of what it is displaying, after five years you might be trying to calibrate a monitor that is past it's sell by date.
Here is the Quick Tip:
When you calibrate the monitor, the chances are you will be sat in front of it, the hardware that is doing the monitoring can be influenced by the color or shade of clothes you are wearing. Ideally you would be wearing a shirt or sweater that is 18% grey, try and avoid bright white or black and also try and suppress your individual personality by not wearing that shocking pink top while the monitor is being calibrated.
If you are not in the habit of doing calibration, do it and get yourself a cheap calibrator, it's better than nothing.
2 comments:
Great thoughts you got there, believe I may possibly try just some of it throughout my daily life.
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